RF MFA: US put pressure on hierarchs of Cyprus and Greece to recognize OCU

29 December 2020 09:56
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Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Photo: mid.ru Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. Photo: mid.ru

The RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that they are aware of the pressure of US representatives on the bishops of the Cypriot and Greek Churches to recognize the OCU.

US representatives put pressure on the hierarchy of the Cypriot and Greek Orthodox Churches so that they recognized the Ukrainian schismatics, said Russian Foreign Ministry official Maria Zakharova at a briefing.

Zakharova expressed surprise at the persistent promotion of the OCU by US representatives.

“It is a strange interest for a secular state, which is thousands of kilometres from Ukraine, does not have such historical, spiritual and cultural ties with it as Russia, and the Orthodox in it make up only about 2% of the country's population,” the diplomat said.

As reported by the UOJ, recently the US Ambassador to Greece accused the ROC of a split in world Orthodoxy and said that supporting the Phanar is a matter of America's national security.

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